ALEX ORA ET LABORA: DEATH OF ALFRED DÖBLIN
Today in Berlin: 26 June, 1957
On this day in 1957 Alfred Döblin, physician, psychiatrist and author of Berlin’s most famous novel, died in hospital in Emmendingen. Döblin wrote ten novels, six short story collections and many theatre plays but his most famous work was and still is the 1929 "Berlin Alexanderplatz".
